Word: uhse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"Listen, lunatic," I began calmly, "you are stark raving mad, and I will tell you why...Christies, UHS, Store 24, CVS, RIX, Sages..." For 10 minutes I rattled off names of toothpaste-selling stores that I could spit on from my room. I was dragged away amidst chants "Satan's...
Psychiatrists at University Health Service(UHS) say freshmen are especially vulnerable tohigh-pressure proselytizing because of theirrecent severance from home support networks. Acorrelation exists between the poor academicrecords of some freshmen and their involvementwith the Church, Harvard and United Ministryofficials say.
"The investigation has resulted in the fact that it is not a food-borne problem," Weinert said. "Based on UHS analyses, it is a virus."
The range of symptoms experienced by the patients included high fever, nausea, abdominal cramps, diarrhea and vomiting, said Sholem Postel, chief of professional services at University Health Services (UHS). The epidemic ran for approximately 10 days, with symptoms lasting only one to two days, he said.
Postel said the coincidence of eight patients with similar symptoms arriving at UHS on the same Saturday morning could be explained by the mathematical concepts of a bell curve.